Senior Engineer (Hiring Immediately)

We're looking for a Senior Engineer – Civils to join our River Infrastructure team based in Bristol. Kier Design are a highly regarded Tier 1 Contractor, with a 750 plus strong design consultancy team, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor.

Location: Bristol
Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role

Are you…

• Experienced in design delivery, including multidisciplinary design
• Comfortable using your own judgement when managing uncertainty and technical risk
• Experienced in the design of hydraulic structures or river engineering, or similar
• A Chartered or Incorporated member of a relevant professional institution (e.g., CEng MICE)
• Holding a Full driving licence

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Engineer – Civils, you'll be working within the River Infrastructure team, supporting them in delivering infrastructure projects.

You'll be supporting the delivery of infrastructure projects for clients such as the Environment Agency, Severn Trent, and Mining Remediation Authority.

We're looking for someone who is comfortable managing technical challenges, leading day-to-day workloads, and providing solutions that are safe, buildable, and aligned with our clients' objectives. This role offers the chance to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, helping to deliver innovative and effective solutions within a supportive and inclusive environment.

Your day to day will include:

• Reviewing and agreeing technical requirements of the client remit, ensuring it is fully understood
• Organising and leading the day-to-day workload of engineers and technical staff within the design team
• Ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies/procedures, including CDM Regulations and design Quality Management System
• Contributing to the financial and commercial management of projects such as progress monitoring and change control
• Delivering alternative solutions and value engineering, enhancing Kier's competitive position

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here .

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here .

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.